Play Store downloads indicate that Google Pixel sales have finally breached 7 digits

The installation count for the launcher app, exclusive to the Pixel and Pixel XL, has rolled over from the 500,000 milestone to 1 million.

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Android One’s Y!mobile S2 gets Pixel Launcher “lite” in Android 7.1.1 package

The Android 7.1.1 update for the Japanese-made phone is getting some interesting launcher tweaks that look much like the Pixel Launcher.

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Android 7.1.2 beta 2: Pixel C gets new launcher, Nexus 6P gets fingerprint gestures

The Pixel C finally gets a launcher of its namesake while the Nexus 6P finally gains something its lesser sibling could do since a while back.

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More Android O features in active chatter

A list of bullet points and plenty of speculation as to where the next version of Android will go. But will all of these features land in May?

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The Google Rumor Roundup: mobile that matters

Well, it was bound to come, right? Tomorrow’s the day that we come and get our love from Google and that event should entail all the rumors we have cluttered around our desks at Pocketnow.And while plenty of these devices, like the long-awaited Google Home and Google WiFi, will definitely take us to the future, there are a couple of things we’d like to focus on for our purposes here.The PixelsWatching these two phones evolve from being multiple codenames to ...

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Nexus Launcher looks to be rebadged as Pixel Launcher [UPDATE: APK]

It seems that the oddity that was the Nexus Launcher is no more. Or, as leaker @LlabTooFeR would say “Don’t know anything about Nexus Launcher… There is only Pixel launcher…”The original launcher, thought to take better advantage of Google Assistant features and to differentiate the upcoming so-called Pixel (neé Nexus) phones, had its

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